Quotes About Morality

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.

Perché i tempi sono degenerati fino a questo punto? Perché la gioventù, l'ambizione e la semplicità sono decadute e il mondo è diventato così biasimevole?

And at the time it had not been the flames against which they fought, but against human relationships, against loves and hatreds, against reason, against property. At the time, like the crew of a wrecked ship, they had found themselves in a situation where it was permissible to kill one person in order that another might live.

To defile yourself, yet not really be defiled—that's true purity. If you're fastidious about defilement, you're not going to do anything. You'll never become a real man

Perché siamo giunti a una società del genere? Perché viviamo in un'era in cui tutto ciò che era puro è stato contaminato?

Other people are all witnesses. If no other people exists, shame would never be born in the world.

A más cultura, peor visión sexual.

Yo siempre me había sentido orgullosa de mi moral y empecé a pensar que todo aquello que rodeaba al sexo no hacía más que embrutecer y empequeñecer a los seres humanos.

Why, why?" he thought, gritting his teeth. "Why are people not allowed to do what is most beautiful, when ugly, shoddy acts, acts for the sake of gain, are all freely allowed?

Böse Absichten reisen nicht so weit wie gute. (S.37, Leuchtturmwärter)

of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner?

In this situation however, I have to wonder...which of us is the sinner?

How we live is all that matters,not who made us,or out of what parts! Free will is what we make of it!

Answer this for me. In order to protect something, your loved ones end up shedding blood. Is it worth it? Is it really the right thing to do? Is it necessary? Please. Answer me. (Sarasa)

You can two-time satan But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

Morality doesn't mean 'following divine commands'. It means 'reducing suffering'. Hence in order to act morally, you don't need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering.

Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.

In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know.

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights.

Yet Smith's claim that the selfish human urge to increase private profits is the basis for collective wealth is one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history – revolutionary not just from an economic perspective, but even more so from a moral and political perspective. What Smith says is, in fact, that greed is good, and that by becoming richer I benefit everybody, not just myself. Egoism is altruism.

though gods can inspire us to act compassionately, religious faith is not a necessary condition for moral behavior.

Would it be okay, for example, for an artificial intelligence to exploit humans and even kill them to further its own needs and desires? If it should never be allowed to do that, despite its superior intelligence and power, why is it ethical for humans to exploit and kill pigs?